Legalist is hiring a
Web Scraping Engineer

Summary

Join our team at Legalist as a Data Acquisition Engineer and contribute to designing and implementing the architecture of a large-scale crawling system.

Requirements

• 3+ Years experience with Python for data wrangling and cleaning
• 2+ Years experience with data crawling & scraping at scale (100+ spiders at least)
• Productionized experience with Scrapy is mandatory. Distributed crawling and advanced scrapy experience are a plus
• Familiarity with scraping libraries and monitoring tools highly recommended (BeautifulSoup, Xpaths, Selenium, Puppeteer, Splash)
• Familiarity with data pipelining to integrate scraped items into existing data pipelines
• Experience extracting data from multiple disparate sources including HTML, XML, REST, GraphQL, PDF, and spreadsheets
• Experience running, monitoring and maintaining a large set of broad crawlers (100+ spiders)
• Sound Knowledge in bypassing Bot Detection Techniques
• Experience using techniques to protect web scrapers against site ban, IP leak, browser crash, CAPTCHA and proxy failure
• Experience with cloud environments like GCP, AWS, as well as containerization tools like Docker and orchestration such as kubernetes or others
• Ability to maintain all aspects of a scraping pipeline end to end (building and maintaining spiers, avoiding bot prevention techniques, data cleaning and pipelining, monitoring spider health and performance)
• OOP, SQL and Django ORM basics

Responsibilities

• Help to design and implement the architecture of a large-scale crawling system
• Design, implement, and maintain various components of our data acquisition infrastructure (building new crawlers, maintain existing crawlers, data cleaners & loaders)
• Work on developing tools to facilitate the scraping at scale, monitor the health of crawlers and ensure data quality of the scraped items
• Collaborate with our product and business teams to understand / anticipate requirements to strive for greater functionality and impact in our data gathering systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with microservices architecture would be a plus
• Familiarity with message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc
• Experience with DevOps
• Expertise in data warehouse maintenance, specifically with Google BigQuery (ETLs, data sourcing, modeling, cleansing, documentation, and maintenance)
• Familiarity with job scheduling & orchestration frameworks - e.g. Jenkins, Dagster, Prefect